Free HTML5 Website?

piggykid1 · May 26, 2014

I was wondering if you can code html5 and make a website for free that way or if you have to use a website making program like this forum is make by IP Board.

Thanks!

Ciccioo · May 27, 2014

you can code a website completely for free

IP board isn't free, but there are so many free CMSs out there, you can probably find something that fits your needs if you want to

if you want to publish your website on the internet tho, you will need a domain (www.piggykid1.com), and you can either buy it (for like 40$/year) or get a second level domain (piggykid1.altervista.org) for free

there are many discussions in this subforum about free domains, give them a look

piggykid1 · May 27, 2014

you can code a website completely for free

IP board isn't free, but there are so many free CMSs out there, you can probably find something that fits your needs if you want to

if you want to publish your website on the internet tho, you will need a domain (www.piggykid1.com), and you can either buy it (for like 40$/year) or get a second level domain (piggykid1.altervista.org) for free

there are many discussions in this subforum about free domains, give them a look

thank you sir

omniomi · May 27, 2014

If you open Notepad and type the following:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>    <meta charset="UTF-8">    <title>My HTML5 Website</title></head><body>    <p>Hello world...</p></body></html>

then you have created a very basic HTML5 webpage. HTML5 is for all intents and purposes very similar to HTML 4.x however it adds support for things like <video> and <audio> tags that can embed media directly, adds new content elements like <footer>, and does away with some of the unnecessary things standard in some of the previous HTML standards like making <br> official instead of <br /> (which was technically done in the transitional standard.)

As Ciccioo said you would need somewhere to host your website ($9/month for cheap hosting) like Dreamhost a domain name ($5-12/yr not $40 if you use a good registrar) like Namecheap.

Now, all of that said you mentioned prepackaged websites and content management systems like IP.Board which although they may contain some HTML5 their primary language is usually PHP. If you want to look in to your options in that area I would start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems noting that Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla are the most commonly used with Wordpress being the easiest to use (you can try it free: http://wordpress.com/)